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Lentil love These at-home dishes use lentils as a staple. 6
OPINION
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OBITUARIES
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LEGAL LISTINGS
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CLASSIFIED ADS
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Felony charge Hayward police officer accused of accepting bribe. 8 TRICITYVOICE.COM
VOL 25 NO 15
APRIL 7-13, 2026
Agencies collaborate to rescue a Hayward hospital
Candidate forums Get to know your candidates. 8
● A combination of local and federal funding helps St. Rose keep serving Stephanie Uchida
By Roelle Balan St. Rose Hospital is slowly getting a more stable form of funding through a federal government transfer. On March 17, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors approved $1 million from the Office of Supervisor Elisa Márquez to start an Intergovernmental Transfer (IGT), which would help fund St. Rose. Eden Health District, Alameda Health System (AHS) and the county’s Measure A funds all together make an over $18 million IGT transaction. The transaction would then match local money with federal dollars, doubling the funding to over $36 million for St. Rose Hospital. This is the second time Márquez has been able to allocate $1 million towards the financial transaction. Márquez said the effort to save St. Rose Hospital lasted about 15 to 20 years. Financial support from the county was needed to keep the hospital — More on page 10
Yarnbomb
Upward journey Women empowerment summit held in Fremont.
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Fremont gets colorful with yarn displays for Arts, Culture and Creativity Month. P10
People with Purpose Gala returns ● HERS employee and cancer survivor shares about organization By Stephanie Uchida
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or the f irst time, the H E R S Bre a s t C a n c e r Foundat ion’s Pe ople With Purpose Gala will include a password along with registration to get into the venue. That’s because, building on the popularity of last year’s
Wild West theme, this year’s gala will turn Sunol’s Casa Bella Event Center into a 1920s speakeasy. (Although it’s the prohibition era, there will be both regular and alcohol-free specialty cocktails.) To be held May 2, the event will have the classic points: a cocktail hour on the patio where guests can view silent auction baskets donated by local businesses, a threec o u r s e d i n n e r, s p e a ke r s emceed by Heather Holmes of KTVU, audiovisuals by Leonard Ybarra, and a live auction led this year by Marcus D.
New this year, Mission Gold Jazz Band will play during the cocktail hour, starting around 5:30pm. Also, there’s a new elimination game, “Ace of Spades,” where guests will tear cards in half and put one half in a basket. The game will keep going until one card remains. The cause is the same. With three locations—Fremont, San Leandro, Livermore— HERS provides life-changing care to post-surgical breast cancer patients, fitting women with bras, prosthetics, wigs — More on page 12
Forest friends Nonprofit plants trees in Newark. 24